Deputy Editor Mike McLean has worked his entire journalism career in the Inland Northwest. Mike, who also lives to reel in fish and crank up music, has worked for the Journal since 2006.
A physician has bought a 1.25-acre lot on Spokane's North Side and plans to develop a medical office building there when the economy improves, says the real estate broker who handled the transaction.The broker, Guy Byrd, of Cornerstone Property
The Spokane franchise of Other Mothers, a Phoenix, Ariz.-based concern that sells new and used women's, children's, and maternity clothes and children's furniture, has leased 5,300 square feet of floor space in the Whitworth Square shopping center,
Lydig Construction Inc., of Spokane, says it's converting a classroom into a wine-tasting lab on the Washington State University campus, in Pullman, as part of a $373,500 remodel of a portion of the university's Todd Hall Addition.The project a
Icon Corp., a Spokane Valley commercial roofing concern, says it has bought a 6,000-square-foot building about 10 miles east of the location it has leased for several years and has moved some of its operations there.The purchase of the former at
GoWireless Inc., a Snoqualmie, Wash.-based retailer of Verizon cell-phone services and products, plans to open its fifth Spokane-area outlet, at the southwest corner of Appleway Avenue and Liberty Lake Road in Liberty Lake, says a manager with the
Even though the construction industry is in the midst of a national slowdown, longtime Spokane general contractor Jim Elmer knows he's going to be busy next year.Elmer, president of James W. Elmer Construction Co., is chairman-elect of the & a a
Before the year is out, construction or design work will have started on Spokane Public Schools projects with a total estimated cost of $18 million, and the school district says it will select architects this summer that will start design work next
The company that owns Thompson's Chevron, at Third Avenue and Monroe Street, has acquired the former Mercedes-Benz dealership property next door, and says it's looking for a tenant to take the entire block.The family-owned concern, F.A.T. Family
A developer of upscale residential subdivisions north of Spokane says he plans to divide 763 acres into 73 lots for single-family residences that are expected to have a total combined value of more than $36 million when completed. A substantial of
Brain Freeze Creamery of Spokane is so small, it's almost a secret. The wholesale small-batch ice cream maker is hidden in a 500-square-foot space below the Spokane office of Thomas, Dean & Hoskins Inc. engineering consultants, at 300 E. get you